Peeking behind the NAT: An empirical study of home networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 377-389

  Grover, Sarthak ^a   Park, Mi Seon ^a   Sundaresan, Srikanth ^a   Burnett, Sam ^a   Kim, Hyojoon ^a   Feamster, Nick ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

BIsmark; Home networks

Indexed keywords

BISMARK; DIURNAL PATTERN; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HOME ROUTERS; NETWORK AVAILABILITY; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FIRMWARE; HOME NETWORKS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CARRIER COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84890066925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2504730.2504736     Document Type: Conference Paper

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